Quant researcher

Location: Hybrid/ Remote

Openings: 2

Experience: 5+ Years

Qualification: Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or related field

Job Responsibilities

Problem Solving & Optimization:

• Analyze and resolve complex technical and application issues.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability.

Design & Develop:

• Build, test, and deploy scalable full-stack applications with high performance and security.
• Develop clean, reusable, and maintainable code for both frontend and backend.

AI Integration (Preferred):

• Collaborate with the team to integrate AI/ML models into applications where applicable.
• Explore Generative AI, NLP, or machine learning solutions that enhance product capabilities.

Technical Leadership & Mentorship:

• Provide guidance, mentorship, and code reviews for junior developers.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence and knowledge sharing.

Agile & Delivery Management:

• Participate in Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives).
• Define and scope backlog items, track progress, and ensure timely delivery.

Collaboration:

• Work closely with cross-functional teams (product managers, designers, QA) to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Coordinate with geographically distributed teams.

Quality Assurance & Security:

• Conduct peer reviews of designs and code to ensure best practices.
• Implement security measures and ensure compliance with industry standards.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement:

• Identify areas for improvement in the software development lifecycle.
• Stay updated with the latest tech trends, especially in AI and cloud technologies, and recommend new tools or frameworks.

Required Skills

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3
• Hands-on expertise with frontend frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue.js
• Backend development experience with Java, Spring Boot (Node.js is a plus)
• Knowledge of REST APIs, microservices, and scalable architectures
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and JIRA for project tracking
• Proficiency in Git and version control best practices
• Strong debugging, performance optimization, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to analyze customer requirements and translate them into technical specifications

What is the role?

This position will play a primary role in planning, implementing, leading, and executing all aspects of Quality and Testing. The role requires hands-on QA expertise, ability to take initiative and develop and evolve our QA processes. The right candidate will be able to analyze the systems to determine what to test, the priority of those tests and the best way to test. You should understand the requirements and design test procedures and test cases for automated software testing.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and evolve formal QA/testing practices, test processes, methodology, standards, and hygiene for agile development efforts.
• Lead and mentor QA team members.
• Lead the QA strategy, test design /plan, test automation, and drive test execution for a key strategic service delivery transformation initiative.
• Oversee all aspects of quality assurance including establishing metrics, applying industry best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met.
• Develop the strategy and enablement of User Acceptance Testing, partnering effectively with the business to ensure goal achievement.
• Respond to all requests from team members in a timely and professional manner.
• Design automated test scripts that are reusable.

• Ensure that all automated testing related activities are carried out as per the standards defined by the company.
• Negotiate, plan, and manage all release activities.
• Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment Plans and checklists.
• Communicate all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes.

What are we looking for?

An enthusiastic individual with the following skills. Please do not hesitate to apply if you do not match all of it. We are open to promising candidates who are passionate about their work and are team players.

• 7+ years of experience in the software quality field including prior hands-on quality engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing test cases, scripts, plans and procedures to support various development methodologies.
• Familiarity with the entire software development life cycle and test cycles (Unit, Regression, Functional, Systems, Performance and Volume, User Acceptance).
• Understanding of multi-tier web application architecture and deployment.
• Understanding of existing QA best practices and methodologies to design, implement and automate processes.
• Prior success using a metrics-driven approach and closed-loop feedback to improve software deliverables and improve predictability and reliability of releases.
• Detailed and effective written communication skills for documenting the features tested and bugs found.
• Highly organized, detail oriented, extremely responsive, and able to prioritize a large number of tasks.
• Self-motivated, works well independently and with others.

Whom will you work with?

You will work with a top-notch tech team and report to the engineering head.

What can you look for?

A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment will enable you to juggle between concepts yet maintain the quality of content, interact, share your ideas, and have loads of learning while at work. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being with the company.

We are

A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, SF, Dubai, Singapore, and Dublin. We have three products in our portfolio: Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Company works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients engage and motivate their employees, sales teams, channel partners, or consumers for better business results.

Way forward

We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. However, we assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.

Bringing up Android on custom hardware 

•  Android OS modifications, HAL interface definition language (C++ and Java)
•  Android, JNI and Android application performance optimization 

 Preferred Skills and Experience:

•  Experience in Java or Kotlin development (preferably Android) 
•  Experience in C/C++ with deep understanding of Object-Oriented Analysis, Design and Programming. 
•  Experience with GIT or similar repository management and version control tools. Familiarity with software configuration management tools, defect tracking tools and Agile methodology. 
•  Development in a Linux environment with emphasis on Unit testing alongside functional integration testing. 
•  Android-For-Work, Android Enterprise features and EMM/MDM management solutions 

 Job Description:

• Build efficient, testable & reusable Modules.
• Being Innovative to accept new tech trends.
• Knowledge in API, Core PHP, Codeigniter, Laravel, CodeIgniter etc.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of database concepts, methodologies, source control and bug tracking.
• Presenting ideas for system improvements

Job Types: Full-time

Salary: As Per Company Norms

Education: Bachelor’s (Required),Master’s      (Preferred)

Location:  Indore, Madhya Pradesh (Required)

Best Regards,

HR Department

Office Add-519, 6th floor,  Onam Plaza, Near  Industry House, AB  Road, ndore, Madhya Pradesh, 452001

About us:

HappyFox is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) support platform. We offer an enterprise-grade help desk ticketing system and intuitively designed live chat software.

We serve over 12,000 companies in 70+ countries. HappyFox is used by companies that span across education, media, e-commerce, retail, information technology, manufacturing, non-profit, government and many other verticals that have an internal or external support function.

To know more, Visit! - https://www.happyfox.com/

A Senior Automation Test Engineer at HappyFox is an integral part of the QA team responsible to ensure product quality and integrity with a special focus on the development and execution of test automation. 

Responsibilities:

• Owning the quality of any deliverables including new features and enhancements.
• Working closely with the product team in understanding the requirements and user workflow.
• Developing and executing test plans and test cases with a strong emphasis on using code to solve technical challenges and shorten the regression test cycle through automation.
• Performing automated API testing.
• Contributing to building of a Continuous Integration (CI) environment and ongoing process improvement activities.
• Identifying required improvements in the test and development processes; making contributions to our automation tools that address specific needs.
• Raising defects/bugs and tracking them till closure.

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in QA with at least 3 years of experience in automation.
• Expertise in Selenium tool for automation testing.
• Good understanding of the Agile software development methodology (Kanban or Scrum) and QA's role in it.
• Good knowledge of object-oriented programming, along with requisite coding and debugging skills.
• Design and development skills in Python and/or Java.
• Some knowledge of continuous integration practices.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience working in SaaS based product company (optional)
• Knowledge of Performance / Load testing tool (optional)
• Experience working for a bootstrapped high-growth startup (optional)

**Work remotely / Work From Home with BigStep Technologies throughout your tenure**

Desired candidates must have 7+ years of total experience in backend development with good expertise in MEAN Stack (MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, Node.js) and JavaScript, along with strong development and coding skills, good analytical and problem-solving skills.

Roles and Responsibilities :

What You'll Do

• Create the system architecture for any product from scratch as well as drive it for more than one development teams
• Design and deliver solutions that enable fast and efficient deployment of quality code to production
• Document the architectural blueprint and end to end design through flowcharts and diagrams.
• Set coding standards for development teams and ensure all released code is following standards
• Oversee the code review process, performing reviews when necessary
• Establish strong communication channels and relationships with the development teams, supporting them throughout the release cycle
• Continuously evaluate the existing software to identify areas of improvement and ensure architectural integrity as additional features are added.
• Lead DevOps and implement tooling and process improvements when you identify gaps
• Work with various stakeholders and identify the scope of the work, provide high level estimations, create a timeline and come up with the approach and design for the same.
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and processes to ensure the highest quality product platform.
• Coach and mentor the development teams to improve the overall expertise and skills of the team.
• Take care of the development of critical components and POCs for new technologies to be used.
• Deliver high quality deliverables individually/as a team adhering to industry best practices.
• Troubleshoot any errors or issues that arise in the application/infrastructure components quickly and efficiently.

What You Bring

• 7+ years in software development or product engineering
• Proficient in MEAN Stack
• Good experience in backend development with Node.js
• Expertise in developing RESTful APIs
• Have created multi-transactional and highly redundant systems from ideation to production
• Customer-centric mindset
• Expertise in Agile SCRUM best practices
• Expertise in implementing front-end of applications using HTML5, Angular.js
• Proficient in MVC, OOPS concepts, Web Development Concepts, HTML, JSON, REST API development
• Strong coding skills, good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to break down complex technical concepts into something digestible by non-technical stakeholders

• Design and Build cloud architecture/infrastructure
• Provision, maintain and administer MS Azure Cloud Environment
• Windows server administration.
• Implement and maintain cloud monitoring, auditing and network management functions.
• Optimize the processes for cloud-based data storage, backups and restores.
• Implement cloud security to protect data, applications, and infrastructure.
• Develop, maintain, and execute Configuration Management scripts.

• Experience in server hardening best practices
• Knowledge of special security arrangements like Network security, DoS Protection, OS firewall, etc
• Ability to work with software firewalls and web application firewalls
• Log management and replication to a central server
• Ability to architect a secure deployment in Azure/Aws cloud using the native abstractions and services provided by respective cloud service providers.
• Ability to conduct a self VAPT of the network and servers, so that the environments are better prepared for external audits by customers' info sec teams and/or auditors.
• Ability to use DevOps automation to setup environments from scratch and also patch them from time to time to handle the changes resulting out of various factors e.g. VAPT audits, customer requests
• Experience building solutions using MS Azure DevOps.
• Knowledge of general networking concepts (e.g., DNS, TCP/IP, and firewalls).
• Experience development & maintenance of a CI/CD system.
• In-depth knowledge of build and deployment automation technologies.
• An attitude and ability to take ownership and deliver a high-quality product, on time.
• Experience of implementing DevOps
• Experience in DevOps Architectural decisions, tools selection, best practices.
• Constant research and learning on new tools and technologies in DevOps space.